No.

It’s really unfair to confuse Rand’s brand of individualism with capitalism. Her promotion of personal responsibility certainly rings true to many, but they idea that less-than-mediocre people start to become less than human is outrageous.

Even Rand doesn’t complete believe her own message, since her fictional hero doesn’t participate in the same immorality or compromise the rights of others.

In Rand’s atheist world, it’s okay to consider many people worthless, so long as you don’t kill them. That has more to do with her atheism rather than her conservative economics.

1. I still don’t care about Ayn Rand.
2. Getting to the bottom of this would take a bit more effort.
3. It seems she may well have been idealizing the killer.
4. My natural bias, for good or ill, is that a rational and creative writer could take some aspect of a “bad” person and develop that into a unique hero figure as an interesting intellectual challenge. I’m also aware that I’m often called naive.

In any case it was interesting, thanks Ed.